Alphabet associations - I

[Flay]

But the What's My Line theme tune was Roller Coaster by Henri Rene & His Orchestra

[mercia]

Can't establish the link with 'What's My Line' theme tune....

a piece of Russian music
a practitioner of comedy being ......

[mercia]

But the What's My Line theme tune was Roller Coaster by Henri Rene & His Orchestra

wiki has another suggestion for the US version of WML
sorry

[Northender]

Well I never ....Kabalevsky's 'The Comedians'.

[mercia]

Well I never ....Kabalevsky's 'The Comedians'.

wiki may well be wrong, however that completes the question

Arnold Bax - Overture to a picaresque comedy
Martinu - Comedy on the bridge
Kabalevsky - The Comedians / Comedians Galop


a Northie D to get me out of this hole?

[Northender]

OK, here's my 'D':
First of all there was the fire. Then there was the murder (although that Italian did OK out of it). Then, much later, we lost out to those film studios. But we're still here!

[Northender]

A couple of clues....
The murder (strictly speaking an assassination) led to a period of neglect for 'D', but provided a subject for a famous Italian composer.
Much more recently, 'D' lost out when certain of its facilities were deemed too fragile to feature in a production of a work by an equally famous Austrian.

[Nick Armstrong]

That whirring and clanking noise you can hear, by the way, and the faint whiff of burning rubber... That's me thinking furiously.

A most intriguing puzzle

[Northender]

[COLOR="#0000FF"]That whirring and clanking[/COLOR] noise you can hear, by the way, and the faint whiff of burning rubber... That's me thinking furiously.

A most intriguing puzzle

...what an interesting choice of words in the circumstances!

[Anna]

I'm only just now looking at D. It seems to suggest that D is a place, rather than a person? But, maybe my inklings are faulty (perhaps it's the film studios that are veering me in that direction)
Edit: Just seen Northender's reply to Cali ........ whirring and clinking? Still veers me in a filmic direction.

[Northender]

There's nothing wrong with your inklings, mi duck!

[mercia]

well I've been at the Royal Swedish Opera for the past half hour, but not a D in sight

[Nick Armstrong]

I'm only just now looking at D. It seems to suggest that D is a place, rather than a person? But, maybe my inklings are faulty (perhaps it's the film studios that are veering me in that direction)
Edit: Just seen Northender's reply to Cali ........ whirring and clinking? Still veers me in a filmic direction.

Clanking, not clinking. It must be yer inklings as is clinking...

Yes a place. Is it a real place or a fictional one, such as might turn up in the title of something?

[amateur51]

well I've been at the Royal Swedish Opera for the past half hour, but not a D in sight

Not Drottningholm then?

[Northender]

It's a real place.
Why NOT Drottningholm?